Powerball lottery winners in 2 states to split $61M jackpot

LOS ANGELES - One ticket each with all six numbers of Wednesday night’s multi-state Powerball lottery were sold in Massachusetts and Nebraska and their owners will split a $61 million jackpot.

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold at the Whiskey Well & Pantry in Hacienda Heights and is worth $670,951.

There were six other tickets sold with five numbers -- one each in Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Maine and New York -- and each are worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.

California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis.

The numbers drawn were 1, 10, 13, 18, 19 and the Powerball number was 27.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 31.85.

The drawing was the seventh since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.

The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing will be $40 million.

The Powerball game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.